There is so much emphasis on testing in today's schools that our children are learning nothing about actually living. Teachers are judged by the performance of their students and standardized testing. The schools are also judged. The education, therefore, it aimed at getting all the answers correct. It leaves little time for learning things not included in the tests. It leaves little time to teach children how to learn - how to understand other people - find information on subjects in which THEY are interested. How about if we made parents pass standardized tests in order to maintain their homes and families? How about if we made politicians pass standardized tests about their country and what they have and haven't done for the people in their districts? Our children should feel comfortable in school. It should be a nurturing atmosphere, not an atmosphere of fear that they will not live up to what is expected of them.

For a person who has a felony or felonies on their record not to be penalized & denied or either their children to suffer when trying to apply for any type of low income governmental housing. Especially if no other form of crime was commited by them within several years. Everyone has the right to be given a second chance and forgiven for mistakes they have made but how can they be if no one will let them.

Thousands of Utah high school students may have to re-think their plans to take a concurrent enrollment course next year, if a controversial sex-ed bill, HB363, is signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert, education officials say. Some concurrent enrollment courses, that give students both college and high school credit, deal with topics such as contraception that would be prohibited from discussion in public schools under the legislation that lawmakers passed. Around 1,100 high school students are now enrolled in concurrent courses at Weber State University, such as family relations and human development that may not be offered next year. The HB363 has not been on higher education officials' radar, since it was seen as a bill that would only affect public education. Concurrent enrollment classes are college-credit courses that can be taken in high school. If this becomes a law, the bill could prevent high schools from offering some college level courses that deal with human reproduction and sexuality. I hope that this won’t happen because students have actively participated in courses and any concurrent enrollment class that students have an opportunity to take is a good thing. This is really important for these students. Not only will HB363 strip parents of the right to choose for themselves how they want their kids taught sex ed, but now we're seeing that high school students are going to be denied the opportunity to take college courses. I think that this bill is tragic and shortsighted. Help us oppose HB363.

Nominate Timothy Dechristopher for the Presidential Citizen Medal http://www.whitehouse.gov/citizensmedal/submit-a-nomination. He stopped the illegal sale of mineral rights to the National Parks and is presently in jail for his heroic

Federal Government Employees should NOT be recipients of taxpayer funded pensions and free healthcare for life. Government employees should recieve Social Security and Medicare ONLY upon retiring.

6 of 10 owe student loans they cant afford to pay.

Support the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012

America needs leadership - not divisive partisanship. We are being ripped off every way to Sunday by state governments and corporations while Boehner and Ryan keep screaming about killing Social Security and Medicare. And all the Repubs can do is try to create noise about the Secret Service sex scandal and the GSA crooks. Those issues are easy to fix, fire the perps and put them in jail for a few years Stop the minor noise BS. Here's a real problem that needs to be fixed TODAY!

Right now the government is planning on taking the Pell grant away from millions of students nationwide. The aim is to stop anyone who has accrued more than 12 full-time semester hours from getting the Pell grant anymore. This does not take into account the many students who are working toward BA degrees in their chosen field. I personally have a great GPA and an excellent record but will be forced to quit school when this goes into effect in July. There will be a lot of students who have poor records, participation, huge drop rates, and they will be allowed to continue? Do we want serious students who have worked their butts off to maintain a good record and GPA to be forced to quit?? Should students with a poor record be allowed to continue while dedicated students are forced to mortgage their souls in order to continue?? Something needs to be done to weed out the poor students and allow those who are serious to continue!!

Many innocent people are convicted of crimes they did not commit solely because the state prosecutors use their own opinions on who to prosecute and who to give ridiculous deals to. This happens all over the United States and you just never know when it might happen in your family. We are asking for State Prosecutors to be held more accountable in their actions and the use of unreasonably lenient deals to be banned from our judicial system.

There have been petitions before to demand a standardized gratuity to be added on to bills. This petition, however, asks that all restaurants and bars increase price points by 20% so that gratuity is automatically added into the bill. This way, the server is happy and the customer doesn't have to deal with calculating the tip. It is astonishing to me that in this day and age that the United States still treats service industry workers as second class citizens. It is not an easy industry to work in, and its workers deserve fair pay. If you have ever visited France before, you would know that their service industry workers are treated as professionals and don't have to worry if they are going to make rent or now, because it is not up to the customer what they make.

Alot in the Southern State are base on the color of your skin. Let stop this racism that are the reason 90% of African an Latio American in the South are stero type an follow an harrass more so then an other race in the South we need to petition our learder;s an but the money in to low-income decend housing more neigborhood recreation center more job's an better education for out children